Clay · 6 hours ago
Software Engineer, Frontend Infrastructure
NYC Metro Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior LevelClay is a company focused on helping organizations realize their growth ideas through creativity and unique data solutions. They are seeking an experienced frontend engineer to shape frontend architecture, improve reliability, and mentor other engineers to enhance frontend excellence across the company.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Set the standard for frontend excellence at Clay. You’ll be the go-to expert who raises the bar for quality, performance, and craft. You love mentoring engineers, shaping best practices, and building guardrails that make great frontend work the default
Build a frontend platform that scales with Clay. You’ll modernize the stack, evolve the design system, and tackle foundational reliability and enterprise-readiness challenges so teams can confidently build complex, high-impact products that delight our users
Accelerate how teams ship. You’ll create a best-in-class frontend toolbox, streamline state management and data flows, and dramatically improve developer experience - unlocking faster iteration without sacrificing quality
Lead the future of AI-assisted development. You’ll define how AI fits into our engineering workflows, enabling engineers, designers, and PMs to safely contribute to the codebase while scaling quality, velocity, and leverage across the company
Qualification
Required
Deep experience building and scaling complex frontend applications
Strong understanding of frontend architecture, performance, and reliability
Passion for developer experience, tooling, and quality systems
Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence best practices across teams
Comfort working cross-functionally with design, product, and other engineering teams
Pragmatic mindset: you balance long-term architectural thinking with shipping real value
You're familiar with our current tech stack or can learn unfamiliar technologies quickly
Preferred
React, Typescript, Python, Node.js
AWS services: Aurora (Postgres), Elasticache (Redis), Elastic Container Registry (ECR), ECS (Fargate), Lambda, OpenSearch
IaC: Terraform
Deployment tools: CircleCI, Netlify, Playwright
Observability tools: Cloudwatch, Datadog, Mezmo
Benefits
All employees can work for free with world-class coaches who specialize in creativity, management, and more.
Company
Clay
✨ The creative tool for growth | Go to market with unique data - and the ability to act on it
Founded in 2014
51-200 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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2025 (10)
2024 (5)
2023 (2)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageLeadership Team
Kareem Amin
Co-Founder @ Clay
Nicolae Rusan
Co-Founder
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